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· 3/24/1995

Jack v. Fritts

Citations

  • 457 S.E.2d 431
  • 193 W. Va. 494
  • 1995 W. Va. LEXIS 53

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a landlord owes no duty to a tenant’s social guest to protect that guest from third-party criminal conduct because such a duty is predicated on the existence of a landlord-tenant special relationship and the landlord and tenant’s social guest lack any such relationship
  • holding that a landlord owes no duty to a tenant’s social guest to protect that guest from third-party criminal conduct because such a duty is predicated on the existence of a landlord-tenant special relationship and the landlord and tenant’s social guest lack any such relationship
  • providing “[s]ince a tenant’s social guest is nothing more than a licensee, a landlord owes only the minimal duty of refraining from willfully or wantonly injuring the licensee”

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Judges: Workman, Brotherton, Fox

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